THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, ASE 
CHAP. IX... 
Converfations with Achmet—Hifory and Government of Sennaar—Heat—- 
Difeafes—Trade of that ae a Author's. diftrefed Situation 
Leaves Sennaar. 
ROM Salidan’s time, till the. conqueft of Selim empe- 
ror of the Turks, who finifhed the reign of the Ma- 
malukes by the murder of Tomum Bey, that is, from the 
twelfth to the fixteenth century, the Arabs in Nubia and Beja, 
and the feveral countries above Egypt, had been incorpora- 
ted with the old indigenous inhabitants of thofe territo- 
ries, which were the Shepheras, and, upon converfion of thefe 
laft to the Mahomeran religion, had become one people. 
with thofe Saracens who over-ran this country in the Kha- 
lifat of Omar. The only diftinction that remained was,. 
that the Arabs continued their old manner. of life in tents, 
while the indigenous inhabitants lived in huts, moilly by 
the fides of rivers, and-among plantations of date-trees.. 
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